The Houthi shipping blockade is explicitly in defense of Gaza.

The genocide must flow

The guy sucks, but the previous left administration drove the economy into the ground. Poverty rose from around 45% to around 55%, and inflation went from around 25% to 288%.

We on the left need to be economically savvy. That doesn’t mean we can’t be radical. For example: A hundred different means-tested, bureaucratic welfare programs is progressive but inefficient and demeaning. A universal livable basic income is radical, liberating, and economically savvy. Rent control is another example of a popular leftist policy that is economically irrational. The goal of universal affordable housing is admirable, but the method is madness. It’s unfortunate that the left abhors anti-intellectualism everywhere except in economics.

This is not to say that we need to embrace neoliberal corporatist bullshit like charter schools, universal privatization, gutting regulatory agencies, etc, etc. It’s just recognizing that radical goals will not be achieved by ignoring hardwon economic knowledge, but by employing economic principles for the benefit of the poor instead of the wealthy.

Tangentially, have you read about the 1904 Summer Olympics Men’s Marathon?:

Frederick Lorz crossed the finish line first and was hailed as the winner, but he was disqualified after it was discovered that he had hitched a ride in a car for 11 miles (17.7 km) after having supposedly dropped out of the race. The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating when he crossed the finish line, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher, Andarín Carvajal, took a nap during the race after eating spoiled apples.

Anyone taking action against a country committing genocide has my appreciation

You do not need to vote for Genocide Joe. There are several candidates who have condemned the genocide from the beginning. No issue is more important than genocide.

The only way Biden will care about Gaza is if he believes it could cost him the election in November. All the people who say we must vote for Biden no matter what are undermining the only leverage we have to end this before hundreds of thousands of innocent people die before our eyes.

What a dumb take. I’m not a pacifist. I believe there’s a time and a place for violent resistence. But if you think it’s appropriate to go around killing people for bad-think, you’re just as evil as anything you’re fighting against.

There is nothing Hamas could possibly do to bring in aid. In case you didn’t notice, Israel controls the entire circumference of Gaza and outguns Hamas by 100 to 1. Israel and their enablers bear total responsibility for this slow motion catastrophe.

You know, if I had an extra two hours two sleep every day, I might finally wake up ready to go in the morning.

So…you’re mad that he’s participating in the communities that he mods?

Check my history, I’m rabidly anti-Zionist, but I don’t support banning people for bad opinions. I would rather have robust, respectul discourse, particularly when someone presents a view that is not particularly fringe, especially for an Israeli. Let them make their case.

It would be different if this was a community specifically for anti-Zionists, but c/world should be a place for healthy debate between people from all different viewpoints.

It’s quite easy to scroll past content you don’t want to engage with or even block certain users for yourself. No need for some mod to decide what opinions are and are not OK.

The evidence for Israel using hunger as a weapon of genocide is vast. There are thousands of trucks held up at the Gaza border. There have now been several flour massacres where Israel fires on citizens trying to get food from trucks.

On Dec. 21, the WHO said:

An unprecedented 93% of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger, with insufficient food and high levels of malnutrition. At least 1 in 4 households are facing “catastrophic conditions”: experiencing an extreme lack of food and starvation and having resorted to selling off their possessions and other extreme measures to afford a simple meal. Starvation, destitution and death are evident.

On recent missions to north Gaza, WHO staff say that every single person they spoke to in Gaza is hungry. Wherever they went, including hospitals and emergency wards, people asked them for food. “We move around Gaza delivering medical supplies and people rush to our trucks hoping it’s food,” they said, calling it “an indicator of the desperation.”

Despite this, The Washington Post reported that “In February, just 98 trucks per day crossed into Gaza on average, according to the United Nations, compared with an average of 170 per day in January.”

Senator Van Hollen visited the Rafah border crossing in January and observed:

I mean, first of all, we saw miles of trucks backed up at the border crossing and the very cumbersome and arbitrary inspection process.

So, for example, we visited a warehouse full of goods that had been rejected. This included maternity kits. This included water purification systems. Allegedly, these were somehow dual-use items, but no reasonable person could conclude that.

On 9 October 2023, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in an Israeli Army ‘situation update’ advised that Israel was “imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

Don’t believe their words? Look at their actions. Don’t believe their actions, look at the results. Don’t believe the results? Well, I can’t make you believe your lying eyes.

Buddy, the Holocaust was only 80 years ago. You’re going to get shit for that for many, many more years, and rightfully so. In as much as Israel has used the Holocaust as a pretext for apartheid and genocide, Palestinians are still paying the price of your original sin to this day. And now you’re supporting another genocide. Don’t want to be called Nazis? Stop being Nazis.

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Yazan Kafarneh and at least 31 others have died of hunger in the past 6 weeks. Why do you think people are dying grizzly deaths from pallets of food droping out of the sky?

• 2,000 2,000lb bombs transferred
• 1,000 500lb bombs tranferred
• 1,000 small diameter bombs transferred
• 50 fighter jets promised in deal going through approval process

Love you some settler-colonial apartheid do ya?

Biden’s spokespeople have assured me there is no genocide, so this is all quite odd

1.1 million people are on the verge of starvation